Should Miers be rejected?

Well, I really don't have a definite answer on this subject. The woman might be a good lawyer, but no one really knows if she'll be a good judge.

However, this article discusses it with some hilarious bits that I had to post about:

Basically, I had about as much business talking down the qualifications of a presidential nominee as, oh, Harriet Miers has of being a Supreme Court justice. So, with that in mind, I realized that it's not really my place to say anything proving Harriet Miers to be unworthy of the high court, mainly because she and George Bush have been doing a pretty good job of it all by themselves.

For starters, let's look at this pair of "doozies" that came out last week:

"He is the smartest man I've ever met."
- Harriet Miers, about George W. Bush.
"I picked the best person I could find."
-President Bush, defending the selection of Harriet Miers as his latest nominee to the Supreme Court.

Well, at least they deserve each other. Looking at this, the only conclusions I can draw are that Harriet Miers has met about seven men in her entire life, and George W. Bush is very, very bad at looking for Supreme Court justices. That happy little exchange is only the tip of the iceberg in the Bush-Miers love fest: documents surfaced last week that revealed, among other things, that Miers gave then-Texas Governor Bush a birthday card that read:

"Dear Governor GWB, you are the best governor ever - deserving of great respect!"

The best governor ever? That's quite a statement to make, declaring George W. Bush not only the best governor in the nation, but the greatest governor in all of history. I'm sure Miers did a lot of research in moving Gov. Bush to the head of the all-time governors list, besting people like Thomas Dewey, Franklin Roosevelt, and Pontius Pilate. Either that, or she was fawning over the President like a high school girl (she also wrote him a note that year saying she thought he was "cool"). Either way, it's that kind of snap, absolutist judgment and/or disregard for history that I like to see in a Supreme Court justice.

Not to be outdone, the President responded with a note that said he appreciated Miers' friendship and "sage advice," but added a post script that read "p.s. no more public scatology." For those of you wondering, "scatology" is defined as "the study of fecal excrement or excretory functions." I'm not one to pass judgment on what people do with their spare time, but if Miers is really into this scatology stuff, at least we'll have a good idea on where she stands on the Right to Privacy.

Hysterical.

Anyway, the article also makes the point, very interesting, that Bush's reasoning (or lack thereof) in picking Miers could be unconstitutional because based on her religious affiliation, something specifically prohibited by Article VI of the Constitution.

Imagine if the Senate rejects her precisely for the reason Bush picked her.